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  • Thank you for the month of July

    Well, it’s that time of the month again when we sit back and take stock of what we have and what we don’t . It’s strange but this is the ritual I also follow for my regular groceries and my stock of medicines. In fact, it is one of the more interesting aspects of housekeeping where I analyze the consumption of oil, rice, wheat and sugar and compare it with the consumption of these items last month. I then make a list of what I require in the store room, the medicine cabinet, the laundry, the linen cupboard and the other odds and ends that need repair or replacement. This is because I like to be organised and avoid any last minute glitches. Of course, this doesn’t mean that my life runs like clockwork – quite the contrary because life throws you curve balls every day!

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    But now that July is coming to an end, I have a lot to be grateful for:

    1. The first half of July got me a new grandson and I am grateful that I have the opportunity and ability to take care of him.

    2. Thank you all the ladies who help me with my housework – taking care of the mundane tasks like cleaning and dusting. Without them, I’d be really at a loss.

    3. I am glad that the Rain Gods have listened to my prayers and it has rained only when I was doing nothing important and could sit at home and watch the clouds pour down.

    4. I am grateful that my erratic tailor actually got my measurements right and stitched my blouses before I changed my size. (He normally takes so long to get anything done that I invariably become too tight for my new clothes.)

    5. I am grateful for the friends that I have – who understand my time constraints and still remain my friends despite my feeble attempts at keeping in touch.

    6. This month two of my friends lost their fathers making me realise how lucky I am to still have my parents because as they say, you never really grow up until you lose your parents. I’m glad that as a granny I can still be a “kid” myself.

    I’m linking this post to Vidya Sury’s Gratitude Circle and the Write Tribe ProBlogger Challenge

  • #Day 3 of the #3 Day Quote Challenge

    Well, yesterday when I shared my second quote, a fellow blogger, Dr. Roshan Radhakrishnan ( who as it turns out is also doing another 3 day quote challenge) pointed out that I used an image that was not original. Of course he was right, and I did feel embarrassed to have used something without proper permission even though I’d so admitted, so today I’m sharing my other favourite quote originally written by Mao Tse Tung but modified by me and which was used in another blog entry . The original quote of women holding up half the sky actually acknowledges the role played by women in society – where they are equal participants in social progress.

    Women do hold up half the sky but do the men really hold up the other half? Very often men very conveniently wiggle their way out of household responsibilities citing a woman’s “fussiness” or their own ineptitude in doing things as simple as washing a dish or ironing a shirt!

    However, this is not always the rule and there are several men who do more than pull their weight but this quote is meant for those men who just watch shamelessly while their better halves hold up half the sky.

    So with this entry, I have fulfilled the 3 day quote challenge – something I’m quite proud of given my complete paucity of time to do things for myself.

    I am also linking this up to Write Tribe ProBlogger Challenge. 

  • #Day 2 of the #3 Day quote Challenge

    Well, this challenge is turning out to be quite fun after all. It has actually got me to think about other things that are on my mind currently. One of my favourite books has been “Gone With the Wind” the Civil War classic written by Margaret Mitchell. This book simply has it all – romance, history and a homespun philosophy that holds one in good stead. Scarlett O’Hara, the spoilt, pretty daughter of a rich plantation owner finds herself in the thick of the Civil War, one that changes her life completely. Suddenly from balls and fancy dinner parties, she is thrown into situations she could never have imagined herself in. Yet Scarlett, the capricious young heroine of this fascinating novel, is never one to let anything get her down and as she always says ” Tomorrow is another day”.

    Indeed, I find that very often  the new day brings a new perspective to a problem and sleeping over it gives one a better insight to handling it. Tomorrow is another day, another dawn, another occasion full of hope that tomorrow always brings.

    So here is my quote for Day 2 of this challenge

    I’ve used this image without permission, but I thought it best symbolises this quote – that if you sleep over a problem, it doesn’t sound so intimidating and insurmountable.

    And these are the bloggers I’m tagging for this challenge :

    1. Keerthika of WealthyMatters.com whose advise I value greatly.
    2. AJ Pai of ajthedad who’s tales of his little son always bring a smile to your face.
    3. Inderpreet Kaur of inderpreetkaur.blogspot.com who so eloquently writes about anything that catches her fancy.

    With all that is going on in my life, I’m wondering if I’m doing this right – am I supposed to tag three bloggers every day or just that once on the first day that I accepted the challenge?  But then, I won’t let that worry me too much as they say, tomorrow is another day!

    I am also linking this up to WriteTribe ProBlogger Challenge. 

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